Joe- People think I am crazy when I say this, but I can distinctly recall seeing an OEM Frejus from about '67 (pre-NR) with one of these Campy Steel Sport/Gran Sport cranks. Cheers, Dave Anderson Cut Bank MT
In a message dated 12/22/2003 6:24:30 PM PST, joebz@optonline.net writes: Maybe rather than "rare" the better description is that it was made for a relatively short time. Perhaps 3 years?
I also suspect the crank arms cost every bit as much to make as Record arms. Never saw a set retail, only OEM. The three arm GS alloy crank that followed is neat too.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
> Burl Simon wrote:
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > (cut)I showed it to Jim
\r?\n> > Cunningham at Cylcart and he said he had never seen this decal before,but
\r?\n> > that my atala had a rare steel Campy cotterless crank.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> That's Campagnolo's econo crank from the early 1970s and not what I
\r?\n> would call rare actually.
\r?\n> Campagnolo Timeline (www.velo-retro.com):
\r?\n>
\r?\n> "1971 Catalog #16 Supplement is printed in November for the year-end
\r?\n> trade shows.
\r?\n> Included are the Superleggero pedals (black anodized aluminum cages),
\r?\n> Superleggero seat post (no fluting, thinner wall, aluminum support
\r?\n> cradle, drilled pivot, originally with engraved graduated scale), and
\r?\n> plastic Superleggeri pumphead are introduced. Also the patented toothed
\r?\n> washer (rondella dentata) for the Record sidepull brakes, along with the
\r?\n> steel Gran Turismo rear derailleur, Velox low-cost derailleur, Elefante
\r?\n> control lever, the steel three-pin Sport cotterless crankset, Sport
\r?\n> headset (only two wrench flats) and Allen seatbinder bolt."
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Chuck Schmidt
\r?\n> South Pasadena, Southern California
\r?\n> cloudy and 65°